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Stocks are up, and Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing starts now. Welcome to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. I'm Travis Hoium, I'm joined today by Lou Whiteman and Rachel Warren.
We got a couple new guests and a new host today for the Monday show, but we will all three be back on Wednesday, as well. One of the big news items over the weekend as we prepare for a very busy earnings week, Rachel, is that AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb have apparently at least talked about a merger. We talked about mergers and acquisitions on the show recently, and that this administration may be a little bit more amicable to some of these deals.
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